Category: Women’s Voices

  • Dear Police Scotland

    We have a problem. I’m a woman of a certain age & certain social class. I brought up my family to respect the Police, taught them that the Police were the good guys, because without our respect & cooperation the Police cannot do their, difficult, job.  Up until a few years ago I barely had…

  • Celebrating The Women Who’ve Stood Up For Women’s Rights

    Jenny Reilly Back in 2023 I commenced a project to celebrate some of the women in the UK who have stood up for women’s sex-based rights. I was inspired by the banners created by women’s suffrage campaigners and decided to produce textile art in celebration of these women. Joan McAlpine Whilst an SNP MSP, Joan…

  • We Stand With Sandie Peggie

    We’re now a week on from the end of Part 1 of Peggie v Fife Health Board/ Dr Upton.  I don’t think anyone knew quite how significant this would be.  It has captured the zeitgeist in a way that none of us saw coming.  It’s being discussed in hairdressers, in Tesco (other supermarkets are available),…

  • Creative Accounting

    On Saturday the 23rd of March Women Won’t Wheesht were proud to present our Creative Accounting exhibition at the Alloa Women’s Festival. Creative accounting documented the creative methods women in Scotland campaigned for their sex based rights in a difficult and oppressive environment. Women from across Scotland sent photographs of the stickers, ribbons and slates…

  • Scottish Prisons Transgender Policy

    Residents in Scotland, add your signature to our letter asking Angel Constance to overturn the Scottish Prison Service Transgender Management Policy. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkEQ_FARlDSfVSihzyMBNU19000xmnB_UVJjQZADFxqMWjwg/viewform?usp=sharing Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice & Home Affairs, Angela Constance, to overturn the Scottish Prison Service Transgender Management Policy. We the undersigned call upon the Cabinet Secretary for Justice & Home…

  • The Rise & Fall of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre

    ERCC was established in 1978 & proudly boast that they will “listen [to], believe & support all survivors aged 12 and over” They go on to say that they “understand that for many, it can be difficult to access our support for the first time. It may be very difficult to talk about what happened…

  • Scotland’s Greens lead the way in intolerance & misogyny

    In an open letter to Patrick Harvie, co-leader of the Scottish Green Party, @WitchyMcWitch says his failure to call out his supporters’ Trumpian behaviour is souring public discourse

  • Thugs, bitches, Jeremy Hunts, bigots

    Thugs, bitches, abusers, jeremy hunts, bigots, transphobes, haters. These are the names our elected politicians call us because we want to protect women and girls. These are the names they call us because we will not say men are women, because we recognise reality. Because we will not repeat the catechism. Our politicians tell us…